Mr. Beat and The Singing History Teachers team up to do a parody of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's "Good Vibrations" to teach you about The Great Migration.
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Lyrics:
Yeah
Can you see them moving?
I can too
They are moving
They are moving
They are moving
They are moving
1 2 3 now we come to find work
It was the great migration
It’s such a sweet migration
It was the great migration
It’s such a sweet migration
Yo it was that time
African Americans wanted to find
Opportunities up north
They wanted better jobs to prove their worth
Discrimination, they’re escaping this
Racism, lynching they ain’t taking this
Bringing them to the entire nation
Blacks move around
It’s the migration
Come on come on
Feel it feel it
Feel the migration
It was the great migration
It’s such a sweet migration
It was the great migration
It’s such a sweet migration
The migration across the U.S.
6 million blacks all went through this
1916 to 1970
They were ready
To start new communities
They went from rural to the urban side
To the south and east sides
In the north, still a divide
Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, all across the nation,
oh my the migration
Come on come on
Feel it feel it
Feel the migration
It was the great migration
It’s such a sweet migration
It was the great migration
It’s such a sweet migration
Singing History Teachers break it down
Left the South to go up North
Lots of jobs so they went forth
California
Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati,
DC and Philly
And the South got worried
Blacks They left such in a hurry
But the whites in the north had their own segregation,
Come on feel the migration
Yeah
Can you see them moving?
I can too
It was the great migration
It’s such a sweet migration
It was the great migration
It’s such a sweet migration
Such a time had come for them to move up
The South had them fed up but they did not give up
Brought their culture, thrived in new neighborhoods
Northern companies gave blacks great incentives
They left their roots behind
Most feared for their lives in the South So got the heck out
Commanded them to move
Easy to see motivation
For why they wanted the migration
It was the Great Migration
It’s such a sweet migration
It was the Great Migration
It’s such a sweet migration